All the headlines from our California Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 30 2015 // A light rail train slammed into a car at a crossing in front of the University of Southern California, seriously injuring the driver and the train’s operator. Nineteen passengers on the train suffered lesser...
Mar 30 2015 // Arthur Cade, 60, a licensed insurance broker-agent in California, was arrested on three felony counts of grand theft for stealing more than $100,000 from a Los Angeles Unified School District program and more than $400,000...
Mar 30 2015 // A jury soundly rejected Ellen Pao’s claims of gender discrimination by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in a case that riveted Silicon Valley for weeks and exposed how women fare in the male-dominated world of...
Mar 27 2015 // A tempest is brewing around California’s otherwise functional system of uninsured and underinsured automobile insurance. At an informational hearing held in the great Shakespearian tradition of dialogue capped by...
Mar 26 2015 // The state Senate has approved a $1 billion proposal to speed up spending on water projects in drought-stricken California.The Senate this week voted 35-1 on the package to accelerate infrastructure spending. An...
Mar 26 2015 // A class action lawsuit filed in a California federal court alleges The Venetian and The Palazzo casino-resorts hid daily resort fees from travelers booking rooms at the Las Vegas Strip properties.The lawsuit filed earlier...
Mar 26 2015 // Three organic food companies that use spinach in their food have recalled hundreds of thousands of items over listeria concerns.Organic food company Amy’s Kitchen, in Petaluma, Calif., has voluntarily recalled about...
Mar 26 2015 // Three dozen members of Congress from California, Oregon and Washington are pressing for full funding of a West Coast earthquake early warning system.The group this week sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee...
Mar 25 2015 // At the start of a fourth-straight year of drought, California state Sen. Bob Hertzberg has introduced a bill requiring regional water-management officials to report the vulnerability of their water systems to an...
Mar 25 2015 // San Juan Capistrano, Calif.-based King Insurance has named Andre DeGazon a senior professional liability underwriter and program manager. DeGazon has 20 years of experience. He was formerly a professional liability senior...
Mar 25 2015 // Encino, Calif.-based Republic Indemnity Company of America has named Allen Goodwin president. He succeeds Dwayne Marioni, who retired earlier in early March. Goodwin joined the company in 2011 as senior vice president of...
Mar 25 2015 // Scottish poets from the 18th Century are rarely credited for their insights into California politics. Yet the architects of Proposition103, California’s 25-year-old attempt to rigidly control prices in the...
Mar 24 2015 // Heffernan Insurance Brokers has named Seth Holmberg assistant vice president of health benefits in its Walnut Creek, Calif. office. Holmberg will be responsible for business development for the employee benefits...
Mar 24 2015 // A jury has awarded a total of $4 million to two Los Angeles, Calif. police officers who sued the department alleging discrimination and retaliation after the shooting of an unarmed autistic man five years ago.The jury...
Mar 24 2015 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced multi-million dollar settlement agreements with Guardian Life and Pacific Life related to their use of the Social Security Administration’s Death Master File...
Mar 23 2015 // A former Facebook employee is suing the company on allegations that she was discriminated against, harassed and belittled during her brief employment there.Chia Hong filed the lawsuit this week in a San Francisco Bay Area...
Mar 23 2015 // A judge in a high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit will allow a former partner at venture firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers to seek punitive damages, adding to the potential pricetag for the firm if it loses...
Mar 23 2015 // Integro, Design Insurance AgencyInsurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro has acquired Design Insurance Agency Inc., a specialist brokerage providing professional liability coverage and risk management services...
Mar 23 2015 // An insurance cluster — sometimes called an alliance, network or aggregator — is a group of agents and brokers combined under a common association for mutual support and the ability to market their individual...
Mar 23 2015 // Chances that California will experience a magnitude 8 or larger earthquake in the next 30 years has increased from 4.7 to 7.0 percent, according to an earthquake forecast by the U.S. Geological Survey and its partners.The...